Episode 2024: HAPPILY HIPPIE by Paul Dougan - a podcast by Ric Bratton

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HAPPILY HIPPIE: MEET A MODERN ETHNICITY by Paul Dougan

Happily Hippie: Meet a Modern Ethnicity rethinks “hippies.” Hippiedom didn’t die; rather, as with other outgroups, it became socially invisible. Happily Hippie argues that the Counterculture is a 50-year-old ethnicity and explains Hippiedom’s ethnogenesis. We’ll learn how anti-Hippie demagoguery has warped American politics, how the War on Drugs is largely about persecuting Hippie-America and how today’s legalization movement is really about Hippie-America fighting for social equality.

Happily Hippie documents the Counterculture’s many accomplishments, including inventing the Personal Computer; it estimates over 30 million Hippie-Americans and shows readers crude demographic maps of Hippie-America. We look at Hippies in philanthropy, Hollywood, sports, various arts, new medicine, the natural-foods industry, the Green movement and around the globe. We’ll see how stereotypes of Hippies echo those of other minorities, explore Hippie self-esteem issues, look at Hippie generational transfer and do some fun media analysis. We’ll also consider the need for a Hippie-American Ethnic Organization and how we might begin one.

If you’re Hippie, if you’ve ever been Hippie, read this book. It will change your head; it can change this world.

Paul Dougan is a Hippie-American teacher, writer, activist and editorialist who lives in Boulder, Colorado.
https://www.happilyhippie.net/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08NVK4WRK?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860
http://www.bluefunkbroadcasting.com/root/twia/paudougan.mp3

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